Joost Van Dam
Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr. Joost van Dam is a Research Scientist - Ecotoxicology in the Sustainable Use of NW Marine Ecosystems program, AIMS. He did PhD in Environmental Toxicology - University of Queensland, Australia in 2013. Experimental research scientist based at the AIMS-NT (Darwin) laboratory. Trained in the Netherlands (MSc 2006) and worked for research institutes in the Netherlands, the Dutch Caribbean, the USA, Mozambique and Australia (PhD 2013). Broad experience in ecotoxicology in freshwater and tropical marine receiving environments, in particular bioassay and biomarker development, ecosystem monitoring and environmental risk assessment, accented around quality assurance. Strong experience in field data collections and laboratory activities targeting biological stress assessment. Recent work has focused on method development for generating tropical marine water quality guidelines to assist pollution management and enable compliance testing. Research interests sit in the interface between the fields of wildlife toxicology, marine ecology and sustainable development, and are directed at providing applied approaches linking all parties involved.
Research Interest
Ecology
Publications
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van Dam JW, Uthicke S, Beltran VH, Mueller JF, Negri AP (2015) Combined thermal and herbicide stress in functionally diverse coral symbionts. Environmental Pollution 204: 271-279
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van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Harries SJ, Streten C, Harford AJ, Parry D, van Dam RA (2016) A novel bioassay using the barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite to evaluate chronic effects of aluminium, gallium and molybdenum in tropical marine receiving environments. Marine Pollution Bulletin (in press)
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van Dam JW, Trenfield MA, Streten C, Harford AJ, van Dam RA, Gibb K, Parry D (2016) Developing new ecotoxicological methods to protect Australian tropical marine ecosystems. Report prepared for Rio Tinto. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin (116pp)
